Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed legislation to establish a pilot program for school districts to use the design-build construction delivery method. It allows architects, engineers and construction contractors to pick their partners and be hired as a team, expediting project completion.
Although almost all Anchorage School District facilities are up and running after November's massive southcentral Alaska earthquake, some repair efforts are continuing nearly a month later, hampered by aftershocks.
New York City recently introduced a plan that would bring preschool for 3-year-olds into home-based childcare. It's a move that other districts are likely to watch closely. There is no playbook for how to effectively include home-based childcare in public preschool, and most programs have relied on schools and centers.
The research shows that people become skilled readers by learning that written text is a code for speech sounds. The primary task for a beginning reader is to crack the code.
Since the starting point is sound, it's critical for teachers to have a deep understanding of this. But research shows they don't.
Brevard County joins six other Florida counties using Mutualink's instant emergency communications coordination platform between schools and law enforcement to enhance school safety readiness and response.
Libraries Connect Ohio (LCO) has partnered with Gale, a Cengage company, to provide more than 2,500 school, academic and public libraries throughout Ohio with free access to Gale digital resources through LCO and its partners, OhioLINK, OPLIN and InfOhio.
A state audit has found more than $2 million in improper disbursements to Mason City CSD staff between 2009 and 2017. The Iowa State Auditor's Office's report shows 66 district employees were paid more than the authorized salary amount and several also received other monetary benefits.
LA Makerspace and Imagination.org have merged with Two Bit Circus Foundation to unify their STEAM education efforts. Two Bit Circus Foundation currently operates in nearly half the schools of LAUSD while LA Makerspace has makerspace STEAM labs in 167 partner library branches.
Warwick's school committee is seeking a court order declaring that the school budget approved by the city's council is not sufficient to let the committee comply with the law, regulations and contracts. The complaint also asks the court to order the city to increase its education appropriation by $4.9 million.
Students in the Washington area owe nearly half a million dollars so far this school year in “lunch debt,” according to an analysis. Tens of thousands of students in the six public school districts in and around the nation's capital are in the red, according to district officials.
Report cards for Alabama's schools and districts are out, and overall, results look promising. Statewide, district-level grades have improved in comparison with the 2016-17 district grades. And school-level grades also showed marked improvement.
Despite FAFSA's importance, one quarter of students don't complete it. A new report from the National Center for Education Statistics provides some context for why that is, with reasons ranging from the students' perception that they may not qualify for financial aid to the perception that the forms and application process are too burdensome to concerns about debt.
For the first time, students taking early childhood education classes at Virginia's community colleges can have those credits and degrees automatically transfer to four-year schools so they can get their bachelor's degree and teaching license in four years.
ACT has acquired Knovation, Inc., a curator of K12 open educational resources. The Knovation assets included in the agreement are the Knovation Content Collection, the netTrekker application and the icurio digital curriculum application.
Just before winter break, San Diego USD officials informed students, employees and anyone else affiliated with the school that technicians and police discovered a gaping security breach that could have exposed the Social Security numbers, birthdates, and possibly payroll and benefits of as many as 500,000 people.
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